ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,857, issued on July 14, was assigned to CDW LLC (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

"System and method for automated information technology services management" was invented by Jeremy Guthrie (Fitchburg, Wis.) and Jason Owens (Brookfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dynamic scaling of IT services management includes receiving a selection of IT services, initializing machine avatars based on demand, dynamically adjusting these avatars, establishing network tunnels, and managing network traffic to optimize resource utilization. A system for this includes a processor and memory to perform these operations. A computer-readable med...